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From: Heinrich Wendel <lanius@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package testing
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:35:47
Message-Id: 200312061735.41327.lanius@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] package testing by Gerold Strobel
1 Am Saturday 06 December 2003 11:57 schrieb Gerold Strobel:
2 > greetings to the list
3 >
4 > In my opinion it takes too long until a new version of a packet is
5 > available in the stable portage tree. Current example: kopete
6 > (kopete.sourceforge.net) 0.7.4 is available since 11/18/2003, yet 0.7.3 is
7 > the latest marked stable.
8 >
9 > What's the procedure applied to test a package for stability?
10 >
11 > How can I help speed things up?
12
13 It would be nice if we had a compilation farm, so we could test if the
14 packages compiles fine on ppc, sparc, etc. without contacting the arch ppl.
15
16 > Gerold Strobel
17 mfg, Heinrich
18
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Re: [gentoo-dev] package testing Lisa Seelye <lisa@g.o>